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The popular legend on the etymology of hot dog holds that a cartoonist named T.A. Tad Dorgan attended a polo match in New York in 1901 where vendors roamed the aisles imploring patrons to get your red-hot dachshund sausages.. Enchanted, Dorgan drew a smiling dachshund nestled in a long bun, but couldn't spell dachshund, so he captioned it hot dog! and thus the food got its name.
However, historians have been unable to find this cartoon, despite Dorgan's enormous body of work and his popularity. Kraig, and other culinary historians, point to college magazines where the word hot dog began appearing in the 1890s. The term was current at Yale in the fall of 1894, when dog wagons sold hot dogs at the dorms. The name was a sarcastic comment on the provenance of the meat.